To what extent are we able to shape ourselves and our lives using self-help principles?
” ensures that bad stuff will happen to us. According to that logic, assaults, illnesses, accidents, and even genocide are ultimately all the victim’s fault.
When we talk about self-help we can therefore not just discuss whether specific psycho-technologies are effective or not. Self-help is also a political topic with wide-ranging ethical implications. Self-help regimes always rest on very specific concepts of the self, as well as on assumptions about agency, personal responsibility, and our wider place in the systems of which we are a part. These assumptions are rarely made explicit, but substantially shape the suggested improvement regimes.
His concept of our relational nature and communal purpose could not differ more starkly from Jordan B. Peterson’s. In 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos , Peterson recommends that we copy the ways of the “top-lobster.” For it is “winner-take-all in the lobster world, just as it is in human societies, where the top 1 percent have as much loot as the bottom 50 percent.
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